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Ok, so a significant part of the draw to Last.fm has always been the recommendations.

You listen to a bunch of tracks that you like and through the magic of databases, algorithms, and other listeners with similar tastes; you're presented with artist recommendations courtesy of the machine.

Their used to be a sweet feature subset of the recommendation engine that allowed groups and other users to send you recommendations to which you could also mix in to your musical discovery journey.

Unfortunately with the most recent 'overhaul' of the site, group recommendations went away completely and personal recommendations went to pot. Instead of being displayed on a singular page and allowed to populate a radio stream of unbroken recommendations, they now appear in your inbox where you have to sample them one-at-a-time.

Not nearly as fun nor conducive to the discovery listening process. :-(

I'd previously found a tool (I'll stick a link in here later) that would scrape some of your…

From my playlist...

My recommendations are: Aim Ammoncontact Animals on Wheels Cabbageboy Chocolate Weasel DJ Cam DJ Food & DK DJ Kentaro DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo DJ Shadow DJ Vadim Daedelus Fila Brazillia Fingathing Fink Flanger Hexstatic Hint Homelife If These Trees Could Talk Jon Kennedy Joy Wants Eternity Kid Loco Kruder & Dorfmeister Loka London Funk Allstars Luke Vibert Mechanical Me Mono Neotropic Nostalgia 77 One Self Prefuse 73 RJD2 Rainstick Orchestra Red Snapper Sixtoo Sofa Surfers TM Juke The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination The Evpatoria Report The Irresistible Force The Quantic Soul Orchestra The Samuel Jackson Five Thievery Corporation Tosca Up, Bustle and Out Wax Tailor Zero dB dZihan & Kamien


To create an entry like this one:

Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. …

A new compilation from http://Acroplane.co.uk released this week!

This is probably the tracklisting, tho i might change it around a bit..
1. Animals on Wheels - Coping
2. wAgAwAgA - Cloudchop
3. Lackluster - Spot The Melody 4. Elite Barbarian - Still, here
5. sitezen- Polar Regions Dub
6. Subeena- Perception
7. Blake Market - These Bowls
8. Egon Fisk - Bombshell
9. Red Box Recorder - Prototype
10. Filaria- Lurghan Park 99
11. Vertical67- Theia
12. Startslow- ++
13. Mothboy- Endless Summer
14. Mad EP - Filth
15. Mothboy- Collared
16. BeW- Warf Dirty 09
17. Vertical67- Splitch
18. Space Dimension Controller - I Made A Funny
19. Cutout- PlugHead
20. Vacuum System - Hermetic
21. Wahn- Last of the Baldwins
22. Koen Park - Chani Isn't 2D
23. RLVL - Fragmented Structures

The (unmastered) BEW track, "Warf (dirty 09)" can be heard in the myspace player now.
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Download link:
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Another month goes by. I seem to keep plowing along through my pile full of beautiful music, interrupting the voice of musician's inner awareness just long enough to ask my two and a half questions. And that seems to work. The following rotations have even more mini interviews that shed some light into the inspirations, meaning, and other quirks behind the artists and their music. In this installment I bring you a little of everything, as usual. I hope you enjoy reading, as much as I enjoyed writing. As always, if you like what I'm doing, subscribe to feed for individual updates.

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Under Languid Lights - Diver Demo (self)

There are only three short instrumental post-rock tracks on this demo from a German group based out of Köln (Cologne) and Düsseldorf, calling themselves Under Languid Lights. The mood is airy, upbeat and lighthearted. …

First quarter of 2008 is over, and I'm already confident about this year's output. A lot of great music that has been years in the making is finally mushrooming through the dying layers. This installment of Rotations has a bit of everything. Modern classical, ambient, psychill, dark electro, breakcore, glitchy IDM, trip-hop, d'n'b, and even minimal techno. I'm not sure, if I'm just all over the place these days, or there is just so much great music to consume. Not to mention my never ending interest in dusting off older albums. And when I'm out of new music to listen to (yeah, right!), I turn to a podcast, Electronic Explorations, which always has something interesting in store for me. So let's start there.

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Electronic Explorations (Podcast)

I rarely find a podcast that is notable for a dedicated writeup. …

Giraffes? Giraffes!
I'm from Barcelona
A Place to Bury Strangers
Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome
The String Cheese Incident
Pony Pony Run Run
Dj Rainbow Ejaculation
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Urine Festival
Armor for Sleep
Texas Is the Reason
Fuck...I'm Dead
Circle of Dead Children
Sodom
Scrotum Grinder
Duran Duran Duran
The Sound of Animals Fighting
The Receiving End Of Sirens
Flying Testicle
The Beautiful Mistake
A Bullet for the Family Traitor
Red Roses For A Blue Lady
Pretty Girls Make Graves
I Am Robot and Proud
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Vitaly Chernobyl and The Meltdowns
LSD and the Search for God
The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower
God Is an Astronaut
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
DragonForce
Meat Beat Manifesto
Puddle of Mudd
Dragons of Zynth
Melt-Banana
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Job for a Cowboy
Sky Eats Airplane
Anal Gore Terror
Elbow
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A couple of new titles slipped across my playlist of recommendations. Upon further investigation I have discovered that some of these albums are even ten years old! How could I have missed these gems! At least, I don't think there's such thing as old music, so I'm glad to re-discover these names, plus some brand new releases. Here's a good collection of laid back beats, jazzy breaks, and perfectly chilled trip-hop that can all be summed up by one label - Ninja Tune.

Originally posted on www.asmatronica.com

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Animals on Wheels - Designs and Mistakes
Ninja Tune, November 1997
trip hop, downtempo, drum'n'bass, idm

Perfect example of an older album from an artist that I somehow overlooked. …

Rummaging through random collections, old and new, I've tripped into a few albums I haven't heard before, which are note worthy.

Yellow6 - Painted Sky
Zbigniew Preisner - The Beautiful Country
Tycho - Past Is Prologue
hp.stonji - Mélaina Cholé
Animals on Wheels - Designs & Mistakes
Clifford Gilberto - I Was Young and Needed the Money